 | 1928 Sessions
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by Yazoo
Audio CD
(08 October, 1990)
(5 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Mississippi John Hurt recorded 13 country-blues songs for the Okeh Electric Records company in 1928. Then he vanished. Actually, he never left his hometown of Avalon, Mississippi. He simply put the guitar down. |
 | 1928-30
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by Document
Audio CD
(27 May, 1994)
(8 reviews) 
Customer Review: Awesome: "Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers" isn't entirely devoted to Son House. There are cuts by several other musicians, |
 | 1946-1951
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by Jsp Records
Audio CD
(04 February, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Unparalleled Blues Purity: This 5 CD set is almost too much of a good thing for lovers of raw country blues guitar music, a revelation of emotion and execution by a rare master of his art. |
 | A Ass Pocket of Whiskey
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by Matador Records
Audio CD
(25 June, 1996)
(10 reviews)
Editorial Review: Recorded in one afternoon in the Holly Springs, Mississippi, hometown of 69-year-old blues great R.L. Burnside, A Ass Pocket of Whiskey documents a single noisy, spirited session with Burnside, his sideman Kenny Brown, |
 | A Bothered Mind
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by Fat Possum (Ryko)
Audio CD
(17 August, 2004)
Editorial Review: John Lennon once claimed that "the blues is a chair…the first chair," explaining the music's primacy in the grand scheme of things. That notion is richly underscored on this follow-up to late-blossoming North Mississippi bluesman R.L |
 | Acoustic Stories
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by M.C. Records
Audio CD
(23 September, 1997)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: BEST OF ACOUSTIC BURNSIDE: This is my favorite acoustic R.L. Burnside CD. The songs are done in the tradition of Son House and Robert Johnson. |
 | Ain't a Gonna Lie to You
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by Fat Possum
Audio CD
(06 May, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Great North Mississippi/Memphis style blues: Joe Callicot, who died a few years after these recordings were made at his home in Nesbit, |
 | Ain't Times Hard [4-CD SET]
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by Charly UK
Audio CD
(14 February, 1995)
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 | Alan Lomax: Blues Song Book
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by Rounder Select
Audio CD
(30 September, 2003)
Editorial Review: After the floodgates opened due to 2003’s Martin Scorsese-produced PBS series of blues films, most labels scoured their vaults to nab a piece of the action. Dozens of reissues and repackagings hit the shelves, |
 | All Night Long
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by Fat Possum
Audio CD
(23 September, 1997)
(6 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Kimbrough was easily the most arresting figure in "Deep Blues," the documentary movie and soundtrack album about the contemporary Delta blues scene. Music critic Robert Palmer, the movie's "guide," produced All Night Long, |
 | All the Classic Sides 1928-1937
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by Jsp Records
Audio CD
(27 January, 2004)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: ****½: Finally! All of Big Bill Broonzy's classic and hugely influential prewar sides gathered together. 128 sides recorded for labels like Paramount, |
 | Along the Blues Highway
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by Varese Records
Audio CD
(29 July, 2003)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Full of emotion: This CD is great. I can't quit listening to it. Chris Thomas King's voice is haunting at times it is so good, and the guitar work is excellent as well. |
 | Amazing Grace: Mississippi Delta Spirituals By The Hunter's Chapel Singers Of Como,
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by Testament (City Hall
Audio CD
(26 July, 1994)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: The Real Deal: The old time blues/gospel music on this collection is as real and raw as it gets. You'll recognize lots of the tunes but you have never heard them like this. |
 | American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966
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by Hip-O Records
Audio CD
(26 August, 2003)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Classic performances by the true masters of the genre: "A rare collection of performances by America's premier bluesmen at the peak of their artistry" proclaims the cover of this disc, |
 | American Roots Music
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by Palm Pictures (Audio
Audio CD
(30 October, 2001)
(5 reviews)
Editorial Review: These are the sounds of the American melting pot in full boil, a vibrant study in musical and cultural collision. The companion box set to the four-part PBS documentary, this four-disc set skims the cream of 20th-century American "roots music"--music based in its own rich ethnic, |
 | Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection: The Journey Of Chris Strachwitz 1960-200
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by Arhoolie Records
Audio CD
(26 September, 2000)
(5 reviews)
Editorial Review: Superbly packaged and lovingly annotated, the five-discArhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection distills four decades of musical passion into six hours of highlights. The passion is that of Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz, |
 | Avalon Blues : Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings
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Audio CD
(08 October, 1996)
(19 reviews)
Editorial Review: Mississippi John Hurt recorded 13 country-blues songs for the Okeh Electric Records company in 1928. Then he vanished. Actually, he never went anywhere. Indeed, he never strayed from his hometown of Avalon, |
 | Back to the Delta
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by Delmark
Audio CD
(23 September, 2003)
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 | Bad Man
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by Fat Possum
Audio CD
(10 September, 2002)
(5 reviews)
Editorial Review: Legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson has nailed the vibe of this octogenarian Delta bluesman's rag-tag club and juke-joint gigs. That's good for purists, but not necessarily for fans of Ford's previous Fat Possum albums. |
 | Barrelhouse Blues & Boogie Woogie, Vol. 1
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by Storyville Records
Audio CD
(01 September, 1998)
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 | Beyond Mississippi: Blues That Left Town
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by Manteca
Audio CD
(17 September, 2002)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Record of the Year!: Usually I reserve my personal "Record of the Year" picks to new music, but this CD compilation is so incredibly strong and so much better than anything I've heard so far this year that it takes the accolade hands down. |
 | Big Joe Williams & The Stars of Mississippi Blues
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by Jsp Records
Audio CD
(09 March, 2004)
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 | Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters And Hoedowns
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by Rounder Select
Audio CD
(09 March, 1999)
(2 reviews)
Editorial Review: Well into the 1930s, music crossed racial barriers casually through much of the rural South. This Deep River of Song set from the Alan Lomax Collection captures black country musicians recorded in the field by Lomax, |
 | Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(10 September, 1991)
(5 reviews)
Editorial Review: Blue Yule is without question one of the hippest collections of rhythm & blues Christmas music ever assembled. The disc boasts the likes of Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, the gospel-powered Pilgrim Travelers, |
 | Blues Anytime!
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by Evidence
Audio CD
(20 September, 1994)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: Hubert Sumlin: Hubert was one the great electric lead players, an influence on all after him, but somewhere along the line he started BS'ing, |
 | Blues Classics [MCA]
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Audio CD
(30 July, 1996)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: A Shining Addition to Any Collection: The consolidation of record companies is generally bad, but this 3-CD box set was only possible because MCA acquired the rights to some outstanding early "race" record labels (Vocalion, |
 | Blues in the Mississippi Night
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by Rounder Select
Audio CD
(22 July, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Priceless: Not long ago a couple of fellow blues cronies of mine and I were having a couple of cold ones and discussing the music that we love so much, |
 | Blues Masters, Vol. 16: More Harmonica Classics
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by Rhino Records
Audio CD
(14 July, 1998)
(2 reviews) 
Editorial Review: The harmonica's not exactly an imposing instrument; who would guess that a pocket- sized hunk of metal could be capable of so much expression? Volume 16 of Rhino's BluesMasters series shows just how much; |
 | Blues Singer
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Audio CD
(03 June, 2003)
(24 reviews)
Editorial Review: Not known for his acoustic work, Buddy Guy unplugs for a rare album-length excursion into folk blues. Continuing the rootsy, bare-bones approach that made 2001’s electric Sweet Tea (also produced by Dennis Herring) so gutsy and memorable, |
 | Boom Boom [Pointblank]
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by Virgin Records
Audio CD
(17 November, 1992)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: Awesome raw blues: Hooker doesn't play by the rules, and that distinguishes him from most other blues players. His style is raw and gritty, |
 | Box of the Blues
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by Rounder / Pgd
Audio CD
(16 September, 2003)
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 | Broke, Black and Blue
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by Proper Box UK
Audio CD
(14 December, 1999)
(1 reviews)
Editorial Review: A budget-priced box set, Broke, Black & Blue delivers multiple surprises within its 100 songs of prewar blues. Arranged chronologically by Joop Visser, the set admirably covers the first 22 years of recorded blues, |
 | Burnside on Burnside
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by Fat Possum
Audio CD
(23 October, 2001)
(15 reviews)
Editorial Review: Mississippi hill country patriarch R.L. Burnside's two previous albums dabbled in remixes and trip-hop experimentation geared to the college-rock market. This is a restorative: pure slide 'n' drone blues caught live in January 2001 at Portland, |
 | Chess Blues Classics: 1947 to 1956
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by Chess
Audio CD
(25 March, 1997)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: I'm Hooked on Chicago Blues: This disc and its companion (1957 to 1967) introduced me to some great music. I already owned cd's by a few of the Chess artists, |
 | Chess Blues Classics: 1957 to 1967
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by Chess
Audio CD
(25 March, 1997)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Teasin' Pleaser....: The Chess Blues Classics. Bellisimo, Baby. Great for an intro to the Chicago style post-Delta electric blues music--heck, |
 | Chess Blues Guitar : Two Decades Of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969
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Audio CD
(13 January, 1998)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: A great place to begin: This was my first blues CD. I used to listed mainly to rock music, and it was the guitar-angle that caught me.. |
 | Chess Blues-Rock Songbook: The Classic Originals
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by Chess
Audio CD
(26 August, 1997)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: DON'T BE A DUMMY!!!!!!: Don't be a dummy. Any fool knows the brothers Chess, Leonard and what's his name virtually wrote the book when it comes to Chicago Blues. |
 | Chess Blues
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by Chess
Audio CD
(02 February, 1993)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: Blues 101!!!: All right, students, now pay attention! Put down that racing form and pay attention right now! This here Chess Blues box set contains exactly 101 tracks. |
 | Chill Out
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by Virgin Records
Audio CD
(21 February, 1995)
(10 reviews)
Editorial Review: One of his finest '90s recordings, Chill Out balances the guitar-glitz of Carlos Santana's guest shot on the karmic title cut with a handful of profoundly deep Hooker solo performances. Among those are new versions of his standards "Tupelo" and "Annie Mae," |
 | Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways
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by Smithsonian Folkways
Audio CD
(25 February, 2003)
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 | Come On In
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by Fat Possum
Audio CD
(25 August, 1998)
(31 reviews)
Editorial Review: Now, here's what you call a break from tradition. After bridging the gap between punk and blues on his collaboration with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, Mississippi bluesman R.L |
 | Complete Collection
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by Prism
Audio CD
(12 December, 2001)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Ever get the phonograph blues?: What can anyone say about Robert Johnson that hasn't already been stated? The music he left us just has that feel of someone who has traveled the humid shadows of the early twentieth century, |
 | Complete Library of Congress S
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by Travelin' Man
Audio CD
(16 January, 1996)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Son House is the real deal. Listen and learn: Son House taught Robert Johnson the slide blues. Son House taught Muddy Waters. When Son House started performing at Blues festivals again in the mid 1960s, |
 | Complete Recorded Works (1928-1929)
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by Document
Audio CD
(27 May, 1994)
(7 reviews)
Editorial Review: Evidence of the strange genius of Mississippi bluesman Tommy Johnson is limited to 17 recordings from two late-1920s sessions. It is the first of these, for the Victor Company, that produced the recordings upon which Johnson's lofty reputation rests. |
 | Complete Recorded Works (1931)
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by Document
Audio CD
(27 May, 1994)
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 | Complete Recordings 1929-34
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by Jsp Records
Audio CD
(24 September, 2002)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: The best!: The JSP label's blues box sets featuring Charlie Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy are among the best-sounding prewar blues compilations on the market, |
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